4-year-old makes sign to protect covered bridge from damage

Lyndon Municipal Administrator Justin Smith is with Dela Stoddard-McGrath, 4, of Wheelock, Vt., on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, after they put up a sign made by Stoddard-McGrath to warn drivers about the maximum height of the Miller's Run covered bridge. In May, a food delivery truck that was too large caused more than $50,000 in damage to the Miller's bridge.
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Amy Ash Nixon

LYNDON, Vt.

A 4-year-old Vermont boy has posted a colorful, handmade sign to warn drivers about a beloved coverage bridge's height and weight limits in an effort to ensure the structure isn't damaged again.

In May, a food delivery truck that was too large caused more than $50,000 in damage to the Miller's Run Bridge in Lyndon.

The damage to the bridge built in 1878 saddened Dela Stoddard-McGrath, of Wheelock, who uses the bridge on his way to and from preschool, the Caledonian Record reported.

"He wanted to check up on it all summer long to see the progress and when it was going to open," Henekis Stoddard, Dela's mother, told mynbc5.com.